System Administrator

System Administrator

LOCATION: Mons, Belgium

CLIENT: NATO

DURATION: End of this year with possible extensions

CONTRACT: Consultant

SALARY: Negotiable daily rate

CLEARANCE: NATO CTS (Cosmic Top Secret)/DV clearance

STARTING DATE: October 2019

TASKS:

• Assist the storage team in monitoring of SAN and FC switches. This includes both responding to automated incidents generated by monitoring tools
• Develop monitoring tools for the Virtual Environment that allow a proactive approach to problem solving.
• Performing event management
• Working with storage team to creating fibre channel zones
• Support the migration, adaptation, operation, maintenance and tuning for all SAN inside the classified/unclassified NATO networks and new upcoming networks.
• Central Enterprise administration of hosting infrastructure.
• Maintain the hosting infrastructure hardware and implement changes as required to fix detected errors
• Identifies operational problems and contributes to their resolution.
• Performs analysis and implementation of user requirements.
• Implements disaster recovery procedures to ensure data integrity.
• Implements & tests new hardware/software releases.
• Contributes to the development of Standard Operating Procedures for routine system administration tasks.
• Uses system management software and tools to collect agreed performance statistics.
• Carries out agreed system software maintenance tasks.
• Participates in or conducts technical reviews, walkthroughs and audits.
• Provides technical expert advice to superiors and external elements.

REQUIREMENTS:

• A graduate degree in Computer and Information Systems Technology or an equivalent level of qualification or professional accreditation by a related engineering Institute or professional body Fluent English in both spoken and written.
• Experience in the licensing of Microsoft Products, VMWare, NetApp
• General knowledge of monitoring tools such as SCOM, Unified Manager and proprietary tools associated with on-site technologies (NetApp, Microsoft, VMWare).
• Working knowledge of network interconnectivity and general routing and switching
• Knowledge of FibreChannel/Fabric based solutions
• Knowledge of ITIL processes * Experience in the knowledge of asset management databases
• Understand enterprise level technologies to deliver services to large organizations.
• Broad knowledge of enterprise level technologies in order to be able to efficiently project solutions against requirements
• Experience in administration Microsoft Windows Servers 2008/2012/2016
• Experience in security requirements in large virtualized environment
• Experience in storage for VM based architectures and the ability to manipulate storage to suit computing needs
• Experience in implementing solutions in public cloud environments